Garakopaktapa

Garakopaktapa
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LocationFuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan
TypeSettlement
Completion dateBronze Age

Garakopaktapa (Azerbaijani: Qaraköpəktəpə) is an ancient multilayer settlement[1] of the Middle Bronze Age epoch,[2] located in a basin of the Guruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, near Fuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan.[2]

The monument was discovered by Azerbaijani archaeologist Gudrat Ismayilov during 1961–1971 excavations.[2] Items of material culture of the Middle Bronze Age which began in Azerbaijan from the second half of the 3rd millennium BC were found out.[3] Various collected materials characterize the culture of the tribes lived in the Mil-Karabakh steppe during that period.[2]

Ismayilov ascribed the Garabulag kurgan cemetery located on the right coast of the Kondalan River and investigated in 1898 by Alexei Ivanovski, to this settlement.[2]

References

  1. ^ Геннадий Андреевич Кошеленко, Юрий Федорович Буряков, Институт археологии (Академия наук СССР). (1985). Древнейшие государства Кавказа и Средней Азии. «Наука». p. 493.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e Вели Алиев. (1991). Культура эпохи средней бронзы Азербайджана. «Элм». p. 253.
  3. ^ Академия наук Азербайджанской ССР. (1979). Известия: Серия истории, философии и права. «Элм».

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